When comparing Demina vs DragonBones Pro, the Slant community recommends DragonBones Pro for most people. In the question“What are the best 2D skeletal animation tools?”DragonBones Pro is ranked 3rd while Demina is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose DragonBones Pro is:

You can nest skeletons and change the timeline of the animation in between the animations in order to make some cool effects.

Pros

Pro

Straightforward tutorials

Denima's user interface is very simple, and the primary documentation is a simple walk-through of the workflow.

Pro

Open source

Demina is a C#/XNA application hosted on CodePlex under the Microsoft Public License.

Pro

Nesting skeleton, timeline tween

You can nest skeletons and change the timeline of the animation in between the animations in order to make some cool effects.

Pro

Animation weight

This is a very useful feature because you can make a walk animation that you can simply change the animation weight to see the character start running, because it will increase the scale of the movement of the bones in the animation. This will increase the hand and the leg swing as you increase the animation weight and the character, making it appear as though it is running.

Pro

Animation reuse/clone

Create once and use the same animation for different characters just by simply cloning the same animation for the new characters.

Pro

Color transform, changeable Z-Order

Can easily change the Z-Order of a sprite during an animation and can also change the color mask on a sprite, in between an animation.

Pro

Multiresolution with texture scale

Can easily export to different texture sizes to target multiple resolution platforms.

Pro

Animation speed changing, bone scaling, switching postures

Size as well as animation speed can be easily changed during an animation.

Pro

Completely programmable animations

Watching and moving can be programed depending upon certain events.

Pro

Switch sprites

Can easily switch sprites in between the animations like switching clothes and other multiple behaviors.

Pro

Flash Pro extension, WYSWYG

There is an extension available for Adobe Flash users, which gives a WYSWYG design window inside of flash.

Pro

Open source

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Cons

Con

XNA-specific

Denima's runtime library is intended to integrate with the XNA framework, which has been unsupported since April 2014.

Con

No longer under development

The most recent update to Denima occurred in October 2012.

Con

Almost no documentation

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